Aura and Meld worked efficiently together. It made the Order leader wonder if she should pair her Orderlings off into teams of two all the time... something to think about later.

Lori made sure they left the guard in no way able to participate even if he did wake up again. A little rope, a few knots that a girl scout would be proud of and the guard was left hanging from the fire escape by his wrists. He would survive. He might not even be able to fight any more after today if the sound his shoulder made when they pushed him off the fire escape was any indication. It was just as good as a kill. Maybe better for the potential morale damage.

The security camera, Lori had meld tilt toward the wall rather than entirely disable. Leaving it running, but harmless attracted less attention than making some screen in front of some guard somewhere turn to static.

Then, all that was left was to open the door. "Let's assume this is setting off an alarm somewhere and move quickly." She pulled it open to reveal a dimly lit catwalk. "We're looking for a big machine. It's a pill press. If we can destroy their stock while here that would be even better." A complete economic blow.

She scurried down the catwalk past boxes with tarps thrown over them looking down at the bounty below.

"There." She pointed just as someone down below shouted.

"Hey!" So much for going unseen. "What are you doing up there!" It wasn't a question. It was an unhappy demand for the bitty standing on the catwalk to get down. Had he noticed her two companions? They had just passed a tower of boxes...

Aura was glad their work had gone so well, in fact it had been flawless. Aura was not sure they could have done better if they really could read one another's minds. Aura stood up and watched as Lori tied the guard up and how she did it. It was a shame they left him alive, but the sound his shoulder made, made up for it at least partially. Aura hoped that would serve as a reminder that he was nothing more then filthy human scum.

Aura Had no idea what a pill press was and since they were being sneaky she resolved not to ask and simply not to smash any machines. Since the stock was pills she knew what would be safe to destroy and what they had to keep around. Aura never saw what Lori was pointing at instead she heard someone shout from below. Aura froze blocked from view by the tower of boxes. She was unsure if she should leap on to the box's and risk to much exposure.. Then Aura smiled to herself and went to the railing pulling herself up onto it.

As she settled on the other side of the catwalk bar, she leapt down onto the pile of box's with a soft thud the tarp crickeling a bit under her weight. She looked back to Lori to check if their was going to be some kind of signal to strike or if they should keep what stealth they had left on this mission. WIth a smile Aura drew her sword and formed her Aura around herself, this was going to get fun, even if they could not kill.

After watching Lori securely tie the unfortunate man up, Meld followed directions and tilted the camera so that it wouldn't see anything that it wasn't supposed to see. She would never be the obedient soldier that Aura was, but when it came down to it, if she respected the one giving the orders and the orders made sense, she would do as told. She had done so many times in the past and would likely do so many more times in the future. The difference between herself and Aura however, as far as she could tell, was that she could differentiate between leaders and orders worth following and those that were not. It had taken a long and winding path of discovery, but she now considered Lori and her orders to be worth following. Lori was someone she could respect, unlike the previous leader of The Order.

Meld nodded her head curtly at the instructions to look out for a large machine. What a pill press looked like specifically she wasn't certain, but it seemed like the sort of thing she wouldn't be able to miss very easily. Destroying things was something that she tended to be rather skilled at. Preserving them was often a different matter entirely, but she was adaptable and willing to do whatever most needed doing at the time, even if it wasn't among her areas of specialty.

When Meld heard the shouted 'hey' from down below she wasn't entirely surprised. Sure it would have been far easier had they remained unnoticed and simply gone about their business, but jobs like that were rarely so simple. The moment the word was yelled, her tail eye aimed downward and she scanned the area, spotting at least 2 other people down below though they didn't appear to have noticed them just yet. That, however, was likely to change and rather quickly at that. She spotted Aura jump down into the cushioning boxes.

One advantage to having metal feet is that Meld was able to jump down farther distances than most humans. A single story such as the current jump was was nothing and she did it without question, landing with a thud behind the man who had noticed Lori. A moment later her tail snaked around his neck and he let out a strangled gurgle. Aura, hopefully, would be able to deal with the others.

Efficient hunters moved unseen in the dim light. Lori only knew they were there because she had once been standing near them. The man pointed and shouted his last. Aura and Meld had things under control here from a tactical point of view and only Lori knew exactly what they were after.

She saw it in action now. Chugging away forming vile, corrupting filth into a neat package ready to sell to the masses.

The temporarily raven-haired Order leader dashed down the walkway. More guards would be coming now after one had raised the alarm. First thing was first. Stop the machine. Then she would worry about retaliation.

This wasn't a lab or research sized pill press. This was the real deal. Industrial strength and ready to pump out hundreds of tablets in mere seconds. This would take them from small time to the big leagues just as fast.

Lori reached out as far as she could and just barely snagged one of the tubes leading down to the machine. A bullet whizzed over head and that definitely caught her attention. She had to have faith that her compatriots would protect her. Her life was in their very capable hands. She yanked the soft cylinder out of it's port and powder started spewing out on the floor below making it a slippery situation.

The tube, she deftly pulled the tube into a slip knot in order to cut off any further flow. No need to get everyone on the lower levels hopped up on this stuff. As it was, the powder made soft billowing clouds. But it would likely make for good lubricant when sliding the massive machine out the garage door at the end of the warehouse.

She went for a ladder next in order to descend into the cloud and find a control panel. She tried not to imagine it as a cartoon cloud where combatants' arms and legs stuck out from the fight. But... it was a somewhat fitting image.

((OOC: I'm leaving the combat to the experts. Go wild. Feel free to have the cloud be thick enough to provide cover if you want or thin enough to see through if that tickles your fighting fancy. Also feel free to engage Lori in the fight if you desire. If not, I will just keep her on task collecting the machine.))

Aura cut into one of the box's they had passed and saw it was full of unpackaged pills, Aura smiled, as she formed an Aura hammer, and struck the box with all her might sending small tablet's raining all over the room, useing the cover, Aura jumped from the stack of box's, she had been advised not to kill, however, and recalled this when she formed her blade. Her blade, cut off the hand's of a man aiming for Lori, before Aura spun around and struck the man in the stomach with her hammer, to get him out of the way.

Aura felt a few bullets deflect of her Aura and turned to look at the direction they came from. She saw a rather terrified looking man who was already looking like he might run, Aura would make sure he stayed. Rushing the man she swung her hammer, at his hip, she could hear the bone break under the force and smiled. The man fell before her and Aura picked up his gun though she chose not to shoot him.

Looking around she could see the place was in chaos already. People were scrambling around from their presence. Shouting and gunfire could be heard from all over the room, even over the roar of the machine. The brown haired girl glanced back at Lori and scanned for threats to her, after all she was the most importent person to protect. When she saw a person taking aim at her, she struck the man in the back of the head with her hammer, though she thought she might have hit him a little to hard, she took note their was no blood and so moved on, stepping on the man's hand as she went.